this is an ad by stephenson's campaign ad saint bob taft is going to overpower eisenhower. and that they have this weird elationship. i'm just not going to tell you more than that except for, get ready for some of the strangest voices you have ever heard. video clips] ♪ >> all right, bob. >> ike. >> bob. i am so glad we are friends again, bob. >> yes, ike, we agree on everything. >> let's never separate again, bob. >> never again, ike. >> bob. >> ike. >> bob. > ike. >> will ike and bob early live happily ever after? [laughter] >> that is the ad. number one, you have to wonder who came up with that concept? whose story mapping that, who is storyboarding that and thinking this is a great concept? and let's make them sound like frogs? [laughter] my point with showing you that if that is first negative ad on television, it is pretty tame. if anything, it is almost just because it is so strange. but stephenson trying to take down eisenhower and of course eisenhower is going to win in a landslide. if you look at that is one of the first major negative ads, that is called the ike

>> this is eddie ahn, if i may, president stephenson? >> go ahead, commissioner. >> so the policy committee did support also putting forward these letters positive reasons -- these letters for positive reasons. it's been beset by a number of failures, but pushing it through any way, and then, the commissioners can join in the authoring of these letters promoting the usage of these comments? >> commissionera wan? >> i just want to commend you on this. >> thank you. >> all right. commissioner wald? >> yes. chris, can you explain how it works? are we freezing the rats or are we suffocating the rats? >> it doesn't seem that they flee from it as quickly as some other things that you might use on them, like smoke. it's not a pleasant thing to talk about, but it is a health issue. we have a lot of them right now, and we don't need anymore. it's a suffocation issue, and there are several ways to block the hole so that it's effective. >> all right. do i hear a motion? -- we're voting on this, right? doing the letter? do i hear a motion to write t

>> and lie stephenson, was it?en teaching history. >> higher education. thank you. so embarrassing. >> law enforcement on high alert bracing for potential unrest. more riots, a focal point on this election. sadly this map tells the story, 24 cities across 16 states increasing security, can you compare this anticipation unrest to anything you have ever seen in your career? >> never especially in the united states. no one expected anything like this to happen in our lifetime. we are struck by how quickly we've gotten to this point. the very same people in terms of donald from, talking about the same people who voted for obama in 2008 and then voted for donald trump in 2016. it was a divided country. it is accelerating with this election. that is staggering. >> the president was critical of the mainstream media not just this week or this month but for the next number of years. here's what he said yesterday. >> this is a big moment in history of our country. we have suppression by the press, suppression. todd: the stak

stephenson stepped down but he's still around, still' key player, from what i understand.ore change, less debt, they want more of their -- of properties that are not synergized with the other properties, sold off. they are also beyond mad about what's going on with directv. we should point out about five years ago, they bought directv for something like $49 billion. if they get $9 billion now for any type of deal, they would be lucky and they can't do that right now. as you know, directv, the satellite distribution arm of the company, is bleeding subscribers. so what's going on. in times like this, you have investors making all sorts of recommendations to the board. one of the interesting recommendations that i heard, and i got this pretty much confirmed, that this has been a recommendation, is to bring back the long-time ceo, ed whitaker, in some capacity, maybe even make him an interim ceo, because there's real doubts among investors that stankey and company can pull this off. look at it this way, liz. why are we hearing about the potential sale of cnn? they shouldn't ha

they ended up as stephenson people, largely because i think stephenson was much more outspoken about -- >> he was. go ahead, site. >> so when it came to 1960, they celebrated kennedy's election, but he was not their man and he never was there man, individually because of the mccarthy period. i think a lot of liberals that may be true. it had a decisive effect not so much on the politics of the time but on how democrats saw him and how they divided on. >> it's a really good point. i will say one other thing quickly and then talk for a minute about -- and that is, it is worth noting that the democrat, democratic party as a whole, including liberal stalwarts like hubert humphrey, for very long time were unwilling to criticize mccarthy. you have to go pretty far into 54 to see broad parts of the party begin to go after them in any serious way. so kennedy is not alone in this regard. and, in fact, senior senator from massachusetts, republican, is just as cautious if not more so than jack kennedy. he's not alone in this. on "profiles in courage" frequently so we can open this up for others

stephenson gave 18 30-minute speeches 10:30 at night on tuesdays and thursdays in the latter part ofh candidates were very reluctant to do this kind of spot advertising. they saw politics as being more dignified. they saw spots as the way you sell soup, soap, and cereal, not lofty political ideas. >> and we are going to see a lot of spots, a lot of ads in the next hour and a half here with professor bob mann from lsu. we welcome your calls and your comments and questions. and ads that are particularly notable for you. we have a line for republicans and democrats. and independents. so it's fair to say that both candidates in 1952, eisenhower and stevenson, had to be pushed to do advertising, correct? >> yeah, so there was an advertising executive who is fairly prominent, fairly famous for his innovations at the time, ross reeves, he was hired by the eisenhower campaign to manage their advertisements. at the time eisenhower and his people thought it would be speeches. reeves looks at one of eisenhower's speeches, i think it was his announcement speech earlier in the campaign and came t

a smooth drive. 880 at stephenson, the first one caused no slowing.ehicles need to clear from the roadways and from the scene and clearing from 680 northbound finally that construction crew clears up to sunol from fremont. recovery for that northbound direction. that's the good news. we'll end with that. >>> hey, we love to end on good news. thank you, mike. that will do it for us on this tuesday morning. >> thanks for making us a part of your morning. the "today" show is next as we leave you with a live shot of oakland and that beautiful sunrise. have a great morning. terrific tuesday it is. ♪ >>> good morning hope rises >> it's extraordinary. it is really a hope rises >> it's extraordinary. it is really a big deal. >> new details emerge about pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, how it will be distributed and who gets it first, as we talk with the secretary of health and human services on the government's plan. and what's being done about the record-setting surge in covid cases across the country. >>> falling in line. key republicans get behind president t

trumant true that, well, did not run in stephenson ran 1952. against ike.hat he and bess simply jumped in their car without the benefit of any secret service protection and drove back to independence missouri? ,david: there is a new book on that actually. not as new as my book that it came out maybe a year ago and yes, which indicates that. years before i was going to do a book on this election, i visited independence, missouri. and visited the truman home and it's like gee whiz, there is this real linoleum on the floor. isn't it? this was not, i mean you go to hyde park, or you go to some of these other presidential homes and they are pretty modest. even calvin coolidge's. you go to his house before he is president and it's really modest. it's like someplace you would see it amsterdam. but afterwards he moves into a big place. harry truman never moves into a big place. and his circumstances are sufficiently modest that he is the guy. he is why we have presidential pensions. up to that point, you know, we really don't have that and they may be independently

the next slide on the ground floor plan, you can see we have residential lobbies on both stephenson and jesse street. we've minimized as much as possible the m.e.p. and back-of-house spaces and provide amenities in lobbies in order to activate the street front frontages. there are some larger five bedroom units [inaudible] create the street wall and also provide family units. and if you go to the next slide, can see there are some deep reveals into the form of the building, and you'll see the allocations. on level 27, the next slide, we set back the [inaudible] at the top of the building. next slide, that's where we draw our inspirations. you can see the changes in elevation and changes in scale from the pedestrian realm. it enlarged into a more vertical multistory living [inaudible] we selected warm materials that relates to the adjacent historic brick structures and also related to some of the [inaudible] also in san francisco to [inaudible] art museum, and you can see that we also [inaudible] and then, the next page shows the building elevation. again, these two matters and in the mi

the next slide on the ground floor plan, you can see we have residential lobbies on both stephenson and jesse street. we've minimized as much as possible the m.e.p. and back-of-house spaces and provide amenities in lobbies in order to activate the street front frontages. there are some larger five bedroom units [inaudible] create the street wall and also provide family units. and if you go to the next slide, can see there are some deep reveals into the form of the building, and you'll see the allocations. on level 27, the next slide, we set back the [inaudible] at the top of the building. next slide, that's where we draw our inspirations. you can see the changes in elevation and changes in scale from the pedestrian realm. it enlarged into a more vertical multistory living [inaudible] we selected warm materials that relates to the adjacent historic brick structures and also related to some of the [inaudible] also in san francisco to [inaudible] art museum, and you can see that we also [inaudible] and then, the next page shows the building elevation. again, these two matters and in the mi